Re: [PLUG] Two passwd files?

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

Please, send it to me so I can take a look.

I did, however, create shell scripts to propagate a handful of system 
files, which includes some scary passwd file manipulation.  Let me know 
if you want to see /my/ code.  It does everything through OpenSSH.


Fred K Ollinger wrote:

> I have code for this if anyone wants it.
>
> It's in perl and it's a mess, but it works for my purposes.
>
> Fred Ollinger (follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
> CCN sysadmin
>
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Paul wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > You could post-process locally with sed to change the root line:
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > I came up with another idea.  On the "master" system, what about
> > grep'ing out user account lines with UIDs 500 and above and placing them
> > in a serperate file called something like "passwd.shared"?  Then, copy
> > "passwd.shared" to the remote systems.  On the remote systems, append
> > the "passwd.shared" file to the "passwd.local" file to form a new passwd
> > file?
> >
> > So, on each system, the "passwd.local" file will contain all of the
> > original, system specific accounts, minus any regular user accounts.
> > The regular user accounts will be added when "passwd.shared" is
> > combined with "passwd.local" to form the new passwd file.
> >
> > Is that crazy?  Could all of the scripting take place on the server?
> >
> > I think that approach would work for groups and hosts as well.
> >    


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